Empire of the Senseless Glossary

by Kathy Acker

Empire of the Senseless Glossary

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institutionalized

a place where normal activity is carried out

fixation

to be strongly interested in someone or something

materialistic

to be obsessed with material things

empirical

to be based on observation instead of facts

constitutes

to represent or to be part of

urban

city

normalizing

to bring to standard condition

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